There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.